June 28, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, least
anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For
the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper
than any two edged sword, piercing even the division of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
(00:35):
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but
all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him,
to whom we must give a count. Now that is
the New King James translation, which is one of my
go to translations. The Old King James puts it this way.
(00:55):
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest. Yes,
v let us therefore strive to enter that rest. Now
it kind of seems like an oxymoron, It kind of
seems contradictory to labor to rest. But the more I
(01:18):
observe Sabbath, and the more that I try and observe
that commandment, and let us not forget that it is
a commandment to rest the more I realize how true
this is to labor to enter rest. And I think
it's a form of pride to think that you cannot
(01:40):
rest because the world doesn't revolve around you. Is if
you stop doing stuff and rest, the world is going
to fall apart because you're so self important. The world
doesn't revolve around you, and it doesn't revolve around me.
And then, of course we all know that. But the day,
you know, when I put away childish things and thought
(02:00):
like a man as a Christian, realized that that the
world doesn't actually revolve around me. God chooses to use
me by his own divine mercy and grace, but he
doesn't need me. The world will keep going on the
way that God wants it to, with or without me.
The fact that he chooses to use me shows his
(02:20):
love for me. And if I love him, what does
the Bible say? If you love me, keep my commandments?
So do I think myself more important and more right
than God? When I feel like working, working, working, or
that I can't take a break because X, Y, and
Z is going to fall apart? Or do I trust
God that says you shall rest right? That is the
(02:44):
fourth commandment of the ten commandments, it's mentioned way before
that in Genesis. Actually, let's go to where it's first
mentioned in Genesis. Thus, to heavens and the earth and
all the hosts of them were finished. And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had done,
and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh
(03:07):
day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from
all his work which God had created and made. And
if we go to the ten commandments, which you'll find
in Exodus chapter twenty, do you know the longest commandment
of all the commandments? You know the longest one is
the fourth commandment, to observe the sabbath, to rest, remember
(03:33):
the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In
it you shall do no work. You nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant,
nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days, the Lord made the heavens and
(03:54):
the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it. This is also the only
commandment that says to remember remember the Sabbath day. And sadly,
I think in our modern culture and modern Christianity, we
have forgotten it or we pay lip service to it.
(04:18):
But we must labor to enter into that rest. Are forefathers,
great men of the Bible. Here they observe the Sabbath. Now,
by God's grace. I think people listen to this all
around the world. But if you're a modern American, I
don't think you would have a very strong argument. We
(04:41):
accomplish so much and are so much more productive than
our forefathers who observed a day of rest, right, I
don't think you could make that case. They observe the Sabbath.
I'm not say they're all perfect, Ada, I'm not perfect
at it, but they made an effort to observe the Sabbath,
and they accomplished a lot. God knows what's best for us.
(05:03):
The law was given. It says for our good, not
for God's good. For our good. God commands you to rest,
to remember him, to reflect on him, to remember all
that he has done. And to rest in him because
it's good for us. He is the creator of us,
and he knows how we work and operate spirit, soul, mind,
and body, more than we ever will. If you trust that,
(05:24):
you should do what he says, and part of what
he says to do is rest, and that can be hard,
especially for a male and alpha male type personality.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Go Go Go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's why again, I think the more mature I become
as a Christian, the more those words ring true. Labor
to enter the rest. When I first started observing Sabbath,
because I didn't grow up a Christian reading the Bible,
observing the Bible, I was really bad at it. And
it's still and I think a lot of people now.
(05:56):
I'm not gonna exactly, but judge for yourself. Six days
you shall labor and do all your work. But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work. You nor your
son or your daughter, know your male servant, nor your
female servant, or your cattle, nor the stranger who's within
your gates. Not just the day of rest for you,
for even the stranger, for everybody. Some things are just
(06:17):
for God's people. But the Sabbath is a rest period.
You know how many people that say they, you know,
are doing it or going out and getting food and
being served. Can people work for them on the sabbath?
Your servant is to rest too while you're paying them
to do something for you, wait at table or whatever.
Are they not serving you? Are they not your servant?
(06:40):
Isn't it a day of rest for them too? And
that might sting I had you know, again, I didn't
figure this out all at once. Paying somebody else to
work for you, and somebody to whatever cut your lawn
or deliver you door dash or whatever people do. Right,
That's that doesn't seem to be the spirit of this
commandment from Isaiah fifty sixth. The you know the prophet Isaiah,
(07:04):
who foretells the coming and suffering of Christ, the blesses
the man who does this, and the son of man
who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it.
From Exodus thirty one. You shall keep the Sabbath therefore,
for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defiles it
(07:24):
shall surely be put to death. For whoever does any
work therein that soul shall be cut off from among
his people. Six days may work be done, but in
the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.
Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall
surely be put to death. Therefore, the children of Israel
(07:48):
shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations,
a perpetual covenant. Exodus thirty five. Six days work shall
be done, But on the seventh day there shall be
to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest. The
Lord whoever does work therein shall be put to death.
(08:09):
You shall come no fire throughout your habitation. Upon the
Sabbath day. Leviticus twenty three. Six days work shall be done,
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest and
holy convocation. You shall do no work therein. It is
(08:29):
the Sabbath of the Lord. In all your dwellings Deuteronomy
chapter five, keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee Deuteronomy fifteen. But
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
In it, thou shalt not do any work. Thou nor
(08:52):
thy son or thy daughter. Were they man servant or
they made servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass nor
any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger who is within
thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maid servant
may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou
(09:14):
was a servant in the land of Egypt, and that
the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a
mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord
thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. It's good,
it's fitting. We see in the Gospel of Mark. He
(09:35):
said to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath. The son of Man is lord
even of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man.
It was made for you and for me. Again, God
knows what's best for us. He's the one telling us
to observe the Sabbath. Now, I might give you here
a hard teaching, but I'm not going to shy away
(09:56):
from it because it's hard. Again, I didn't grow up
a Christian, and I became a Christian, I think, unlike
many people, not by hearing fun pop music at big churches,
but by reading the Word of God, by reading the Bible.
I heard the not churches. But what I'm here to
say is if Churchianity, pop Christian culture says one thing,
(10:21):
and the literal Word of God says another, to which
do you go. Do you go with the Word of
God out of his own mouth what he says, or
do you go with what popular culture says. To me,
the answer is obvious. The rest of all this for
a while is like, sir, surely most of the Christian
sex denominations can't be wrong. But I'm going to tell
(10:43):
you that the Biblical all evidence to me in years
of study, the Biblical Sabbath is Saturday. Now, calm down.
There's nothing in the Bible that says you shall not
go to church on Sunday. If you want to go
to church on Sunday, nothing wrong with that. I will
go to church on Sunday. I think saying you can't
go to church on Sunday. What I'm saying is the Sabbath.
(11:05):
All indications, all evidence is that the Sabbath is Saturday.
That is a day you are commanded to rest and
shall not add to or take away from the Word
of God. You shall not add to it or take
away from it. You see that from the Torah to Revelation,
Jesus says. Jesus says, if you love me, keep my commandments.
(11:29):
One of those commandments is the Sabbath day. You'd be
hard pressed any hard evidence the Sabbath is not on Saturday.
And yes, you do know the day of the week,
because there's been an unbroken observation of the Sabbath from
the time Jesus lived until today. There's been people that
observe the Sabbath every day from then until now. It
is Saturday when our own calendar say so, this Saturday
(11:52):
is the seventh day the Sabbath day. Sunday is the
first day. There is a to me, a fairly week
argument that you know, some of the disciples gathered together
on Sunday. Okay, that's great. Again, there's nothing against that.
That doesn't there is no there's nothing in the Bible
(12:13):
that says that God's commandment of the Sabbath changed to Sunday.
It's just not there. It might be church tradition, but
I don't see it in the Bible. And Paul I
must point out who wrote most of the New Testament,
the books that a lot of people like to quote.
He went on the Sabbath day, and Paul observed the
Sabbath day as was his custom. Paul went into the
(12:37):
synagogue on three Sabbath days and reason with them from
the Scriptures Acts seventeen. Also, Jesus observed the Sabbath You
know why because he was perfect, and he observed the
commandments of God perfectly, unlike us. He is our savior,
he is our example. We are to walk as he walked.
He didn't change it to Sunday. He observed the Sabbath day.
(12:59):
If Jesus observes the Sabbath day, who is man to
change or pretend they can change that day. Do your
own research. Don't take my word for it. Look into
actual scripture, not what somebody in a church said one
time after some council. What does the actual written word
of God say, Sola scriptrah? What does God's words say
(13:20):
about what he wants you to do? And to me,
it's pretty clear. And I wrestled with this for a
long time, that the Sabbath day is Saturday, sundown on
Friday to sundown on Saturday. I know this doesn't go
well with our Roman Gregorian calendar. Might be hard to
figure out at first, but God's days don't start in
(13:41):
the morning. God starts his days on sundown. He always has.
If we go back to Genesis. In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters. Then God said, let there
be light. And there was light. And God saw the
(14:05):
light that it was good. And God divided the light
from the darkness. God called the light day, and the
darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning
were the first day. Did you catch that? So the
evening and the morning were the first day. Leviticus twenty three.
(14:27):
It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and
you must deny yourselves from the evening of the ninth
day of the month until the following evening you are
to observe. You are to observe the Sabbath evening to evening.
This the day actually begins God's days. God's actual calendar,
which I would say pre date and override man's days,
(14:50):
begin in the evening. And again there will be no argument.
The apostles went to the temple on Sunday because it's
mentioned in the Bible, but it also in the same
book says every day they continued to meet together in
the temple courts, where they worshiped together at the temple
each day. So the fact they did it on Sunday
(15:12):
too is that doesn't have anything to do with changing
the Sabbath. Also, they will say that Jesus went and
found the as I was that. They will say that
Mary went and found the empty tomb on Sunday. Amen
that yeah, she did, but he had already risen when
she found it, and she found it very early in
the morning. When did he rise? When did Jesus rise?
(15:32):
I know that he rose, I don't know the exact
hour of the day. Nor even if he did rise
on Sunday, that would be more significant because that would
show that even he rested, was was not doing the
resurrection on the Sabbath day. But if he did, that's fine.
Jesus is lord of the Sabbath him. Mary finding an
empty tomb and Jesus risen on Sunday does not does
(15:53):
not to me in any way show that God's entire
commandment a perpetual covenant throughout your generations was changed. Nor
do I think it's within man's power to change God's commandments.
If you love me, keep my commandments, and again, perpetual
throughout your generations means to me forever, not until some
council somewhere changes or pretends to change the Sabbath day.
(16:17):
And not here to pick on churches. I'm just saying,
do your own research on that, and if your evidence
leads you to the Sabbath day being Saturday, then you
are commanded to observe it. Are you in Christianity to
be popular in modern Christian culture? Or are you in
(16:38):
Christianity to follow Christ? Now that's a real thing, and
that can be tough at times. Who does not first
building a tower, who does not first count the cost
at least he get part way done? That might be
a hard thing. But are you in Christianity for the
cool worship music or you know, the pop culture today
(16:59):
even counter called nature of it. Are you in Christianity
to follow Christ? Are you in Christianity or are you
in christ to follow Christ? That wasn't even the main
point I wanted to make, and the sermon the main
point is labor to enter the rest. You are called
to observe Sabbath That is God's law for us, and
(17:21):
it is good for us, and I have done it
now for years and again I'm not perfect. If I
was perfect, I wouldn't need a perfect savior to die
for me. But God knows what he's doing. When God
tells you to rest, you should labor to enter that rest.
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
There remains a rest therefore for the people of God,
(17:45):
from the very last chapter. I had to make sure
they're the very last chapter of a revelation. Blessed are
those who do His commandments. Let us labor to enter
that rest. It is good and fitting. The world doesn't
revolve around you. It doesn't revolve around me. It's not
(18:05):
about what we want. It's about what God tells us
to do. He knows better than you and I. That's
kind of what Sinnate is saying, God, I know what
you want me to do, but I'm gonna do what
I want to do anyway. Let us not be like that.
Let us walk like Christ. Let us be more like Christ,
who said your will be done when he was going
to be humiliated and spit on and whipped and pierced
(18:31):
and nailed to a piece of wood. He said, your
will be done. He obeyed. He can do that. Can
we not labor to enter the rest? Because we're commanded to,
and we trust that God knows what's best for us.
Let us labor to enter that rest. Have a blessed day,
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, least
anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For
the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper
than any two edged sword, piercing even the division of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
(00:35):
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but
all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him,
to whom we must give a count. Now that is
the New King James translation, which is one of my
go to translations. The Old King James puts it this way.
(00:55):
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest. Yes,
v let us therefore strive to enter that rest. Now
it kind of seems like an oxymoron, It kind of
seems contradictory to labor to rest. But the more I
(01:18):
observe Sabbath, and the more that I try and observe
that commandment, and let us not forget that it is
a commandment to rest the more I realize how true
this is to labor to enter rest. And I think
it's a form of pride to think that you cannot
(01:40):
rest because the world doesn't revolve around you. Is if
you stop doing stuff and rest, the world is going
to fall apart because you're so self important. The world
doesn't revolve around you, and it doesn't revolve around me.
And then, of course we all know that. But the day,
you know, when I put away childish things and thought
(02:00):
like a man as a Christian, realized that that the
world doesn't actually revolve around me. God chooses to use
me by his own divine mercy and grace, but he
doesn't need me. The world will keep going on the
way that God wants it to, with or without me.
The fact that he chooses to use me shows his
(02:20):
love for me. And if I love him, what does
the Bible say? If you love me, keep my commandments?
So do I think myself more important and more right
than God? When I feel like working, working, working, or
that I can't take a break because X, Y, and
Z is going to fall apart? Or do I trust
God that says you shall rest right? That is the
(02:44):
fourth commandment of the ten commandments, it's mentioned way before
that in Genesis. Actually, let's go to where it's first
mentioned in Genesis. Thus, to heavens and the earth and
all the hosts of them were finished. And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had done,
and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh
(03:07):
day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from
all his work which God had created and made. And
if we go to the ten commandments, which you'll find
in Exodus chapter twenty, do you know the longest commandment
of all the commandments? You know the longest one is
the fourth commandment, to observe the sabbath, to rest, remember
(03:33):
the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In
it you shall do no work. You nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant,
nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days, the Lord made the heavens and
(03:54):
the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it. This is also the only
commandment that says to remember remember the Sabbath day. And sadly,
I think in our modern culture and modern Christianity, we
have forgotten it or we pay lip service to it.
(04:18):
But we must labor to enter into that rest. Are forefathers,
great men of the Bible. Here they observe the Sabbath. Now,
by God's grace. I think people listen to this all
around the world. But if you're a modern American, I
don't think you would have a very strong argument. We
(04:41):
accomplish so much and are so much more productive than
our forefathers who observed a day of rest, right, I
don't think you could make that case. They observe the Sabbath.
I'm not say they're all perfect, Ada, I'm not perfect
at it, but they made an effort to observe the Sabbath,
and they accomplished a lot. God knows what's best for us.
(05:03):
The law was given. It says for our good, not
for God's good. For our good. God commands you to rest,
to remember him, to reflect on him, to remember all
that he has done. And to rest in him because
it's good for us. He is the creator of us,
and he knows how we work and operate spirit, soul, mind,
and body, more than we ever will. If you trust that,
(05:24):
you should do what he says, and part of what
he says to do is rest, and that can be hard,
especially for a male and alpha male type personality.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Go Go Go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's why again, I think the more mature I become
as a Christian, the more those words ring true. Labor
to enter the rest. When I first started observing Sabbath,
because I didn't grow up a Christian reading the Bible,
observing the Bible, I was really bad at it. And
it's still and I think a lot of people now.
(05:56):
I'm not gonna exactly, but judge for yourself. Six days
you shall labor and do all your work. But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work. You nor your
son or your daughter, know your male servant, nor your
female servant, or your cattle, nor the stranger who's within
your gates. Not just the day of rest for you,
for even the stranger, for everybody. Some things are just
(06:17):
for God's people. But the Sabbath is a rest period.
You know how many people that say they, you know,
are doing it or going out and getting food and
being served. Can people work for them on the sabbath?
Your servant is to rest too while you're paying them
to do something for you, wait at table or whatever.
Are they not serving you? Are they not your servant?
(06:40):
Isn't it a day of rest for them too? And
that might sting I had you know, again, I didn't
figure this out all at once. Paying somebody else to
work for you, and somebody to whatever cut your lawn
or deliver you door dash or whatever people do. Right,
That's that doesn't seem to be the spirit of this
commandment from Isaiah fifty sixth. The you know the prophet Isaiah,
(07:04):
who foretells the coming and suffering of Christ, the blesses
the man who does this, and the son of man
who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it.
From Exodus thirty one. You shall keep the Sabbath therefore,
for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defiles it
(07:24):
shall surely be put to death. For whoever does any
work therein that soul shall be cut off from among
his people. Six days may work be done, but in
the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.
Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall
surely be put to death. Therefore, the children of Israel
(07:48):
shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations,
a perpetual covenant. Exodus thirty five. Six days work shall
be done, But on the seventh day there shall be
to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest. The
Lord whoever does work therein shall be put to death.
(08:09):
You shall come no fire throughout your habitation. Upon the
Sabbath day. Leviticus twenty three. Six days work shall be done,
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest and
holy convocation. You shall do no work therein. It is
(08:29):
the Sabbath of the Lord. In all your dwellings Deuteronomy
chapter five, keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee Deuteronomy fifteen. But
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
In it, thou shalt not do any work. Thou nor
(08:52):
thy son or thy daughter. Were they man servant or
they made servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass nor
any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger who is within
thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maid servant
may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou
(09:14):
was a servant in the land of Egypt, and that
the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a
mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord
thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. It's good,
it's fitting. We see in the Gospel of Mark. He
(09:35):
said to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath. The son of Man is lord
even of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man.
It was made for you and for me. Again, God
knows what's best for us. He's the one telling us
to observe the Sabbath. Now, I might give you here
a hard teaching, but I'm not going to shy away
(09:56):
from it because it's hard. Again, I didn't grow up
a Christian, and I became a Christian, I think, unlike
many people, not by hearing fun pop music at big churches,
but by reading the Word of God, by reading the Bible.
I heard the not churches. But what I'm here to
say is if Churchianity, pop Christian culture says one thing,
(10:21):
and the literal Word of God says another, to which
do you go. Do you go with the Word of
God out of his own mouth what he says, or
do you go with what popular culture says. To me,
the answer is obvious. The rest of all this for
a while is like, sir, surely most of the Christian
sex denominations can't be wrong. But I'm going to tell
(10:43):
you that the Biblical all evidence to me in years
of study, the Biblical Sabbath is Saturday. Now, calm down.
There's nothing in the Bible that says you shall not
go to church on Sunday. If you want to go
to church on Sunday, nothing wrong with that. I will
go to church on Sunday. I think saying you can't
go to church on Sunday. What I'm saying is the Sabbath.
(11:05):
All indications, all evidence is that the Sabbath is Saturday.
That is a day you are commanded to rest and
shall not add to or take away from the Word
of God. You shall not add to it or take
away from it. You see that from the Torah to Revelation,
Jesus says. Jesus says, if you love me, keep my commandments.
(11:29):
One of those commandments is the Sabbath day. You'd be
hard pressed any hard evidence the Sabbath is not on Saturday.
And yes, you do know the day of the week,
because there's been an unbroken observation of the Sabbath from
the time Jesus lived until today. There's been people that
observe the Sabbath every day from then until now. It
is Saturday when our own calendar say so, this Saturday
(11:52):
is the seventh day the Sabbath day. Sunday is the
first day. There is a to me, a fairly week
argument that you know, some of the disciples gathered together
on Sunday. Okay, that's great. Again, there's nothing against that.
That doesn't there is no there's nothing in the Bible
(12:13):
that says that God's commandment of the Sabbath changed to Sunday.
It's just not there. It might be church tradition, but
I don't see it in the Bible. And Paul I
must point out who wrote most of the New Testament,
the books that a lot of people like to quote.
He went on the Sabbath day, and Paul observed the
Sabbath day as was his custom. Paul went into the
(12:37):
synagogue on three Sabbath days and reason with them from
the Scriptures Acts seventeen. Also, Jesus observed the Sabbath You
know why because he was perfect, and he observed the
commandments of God perfectly, unlike us. He is our savior,
he is our example. We are to walk as he walked.
He didn't change it to Sunday. He observed the Sabbath day.
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If Jesus observes the Sabbath day, who is man to
change or pretend they can change that day. Do your
own research. Don't take my word for it. Look into
actual scripture, not what somebody in a church said one
time after some council. What does the actual written word
of God say, Sola scriptrah? What does God's words say
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about what he wants you to do? And to me,
it's pretty clear. And I wrestled with this for a
long time, that the Sabbath day is Saturday, sundown on
Friday to sundown on Saturday. I know this doesn't go
well with our Roman Gregorian calendar. Might be hard to
figure out at first, but God's days don't start in
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the morning. God starts his days on sundown. He always has.
If we go back to Genesis. In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters. Then God said, let there
be light. And there was light. And God saw the
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light that it was good. And God divided the light
from the darkness. God called the light day, and the
darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning
were the first day. Did you catch that? So the
evening and the morning were the first day. Leviticus twenty three.
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It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and
you must deny yourselves from the evening of the ninth
day of the month until the following evening you are
to observe. You are to observe the Sabbath evening to evening.
This the day actually begins God's days. God's actual calendar,
which I would say pre date and override man's days,
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begin in the evening. And again there will be no argument.
The apostles went to the temple on Sunday because it's
mentioned in the Bible, but it also in the same
book says every day they continued to meet together in
the temple courts, where they worshiped together at the temple
each day. So the fact they did it on Sunday
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too is that doesn't have anything to do with changing
the Sabbath. Also, they will say that Jesus went and
found the as I was that. They will say that
Mary went and found the empty tomb on Sunday. Amen
that yeah, she did, but he had already risen when
she found it, and she found it very early in
the morning. When did he rise? When did Jesus rise?
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I know that he rose, I don't know the exact
hour of the day. Nor even if he did rise
on Sunday, that would be more significant because that would
show that even he rested, was was not doing the
resurrection on the Sabbath day. But if he did, that's fine.
Jesus is lord of the Sabbath him. Mary finding an
empty tomb and Jesus risen on Sunday does not does
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not to me in any way show that God's entire
commandment a perpetual covenant throughout your generations was changed. Nor
do I think it's within man's power to change God's commandments.
If you love me, keep my commandments, and again, perpetual
throughout your generations means to me forever, not until some
council somewhere changes or pretends to change the Sabbath day.
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And not here to pick on churches. I'm just saying,
do your own research on that, and if your evidence
leads you to the Sabbath day being Saturday, then you
are commanded to observe it. Are you in Christianity to
be popular in modern Christian culture? Or are you in
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Christianity to follow Christ? Now that's a real thing, and
that can be tough at times. Who does not first
building a tower, who does not first count the cost
at least he get part way done? That might be
a hard thing. But are you in Christianity for the
cool worship music or you know, the pop culture today
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even counter called nature of it. Are you in Christianity
to follow Christ? Are you in Christianity or are you
in christ to follow Christ? That wasn't even the main
point I wanted to make, and the sermon the main
point is labor to enter the rest. You are called
to observe Sabbath That is God's law for us, and
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it is good for us, and I have done it
now for years and again I'm not perfect. If I
was perfect, I wouldn't need a perfect savior to die
for me. But God knows what he's doing. When God
tells you to rest, you should labor to enter that rest.
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
There remains a rest therefore for the people of God,
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from the very last chapter. I had to make sure
they're the very last chapter of a revelation. Blessed are
those who do His commandments. Let us labor to enter
that rest. It is good and fitting. The world doesn't
revolve around you. It doesn't revolve around me. It's not
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about what we want. It's about what God tells us
to do. He knows better than you and I. That's
kind of what Sinnate is saying, God, I know what
you want me to do, but I'm gonna do what
I want to do anyway. Let us not be like that.
Let us walk like Christ. Let us be more like Christ,
who said your will be done when he was going
to be humiliated and spit on and whipped and pierced
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and nailed to a piece of wood. He said, your
will be done. He obeyed. He can do that. Can
we not labor to enter the rest? Because we're commanded to,
and we trust that God knows what's best for us.
Let us labor to enter that rest. Have a blessed day,
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